Healthcare provider - Adverse professional review action

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AR Code › Title 23 › Chapter 99 › Subchapter 2 › Section 23-99-210

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A healthcare insurer shall not exclude a physician as a participating healthcare provider in a health benefit plan based solely on an adverse professional review action, including those described in the Arkansas Peer Review Fairness Act, § 20-9-1301 et seq., unless a hospital's physician peer review committee concludes that the conduct of the physician adversely affected or could have adversely affected a patient by violating the standard of care or posing a risk to the health or welfare of a patient. Added by Act 2019, No. 996,§ 1, eff. 4/15/2019.

A healthcare insurer shall not exclude a physician as a participating healthcare provider in a health benefit plan based solely on an adverse professional review action, including those described in the Arkansas Peer Review Fairness Act, § 20-9-1301 et seq., unless a hospital's physician peer review committee concludes that the conduct of the physician adversely affected or could have adversely affected a patient by violating the standard of care or posing a risk to the health or welfare of a patient.

Added by Act 2019, No. 996,§ 1, eff. 4/15/2019.

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